Build Yourself a Quiet Room in Your Mind

Stressful situations  are all around us throughout the day  and since we cannot  control these stresfull inibitors, the next best thing is to build yourself a quiet room in your mind!
Physical relaxation is a powerful “dis-inhibitor” and relaxation means —no response. Therefore, in your daily practice of relaxation, you are learning disinhibition as well as providing yourself with nature’s own do-it-yourself tranquilizer, which you can take with you into your daily activities. Protect yourself from disturbing stimuli by maintaining the relaxed attitude.

~ A fact is that our disturbed feelings—our anger, hostility, fear, anxiety, insecurity, are caused by our own responses—not by externals.

Response means tension ~ Lack of response means relaxation

I learned recently that you absolutely cannot feel angry, fearful, anxious, insecure, “unsafe” as long as your muscles remain perfectly relaxed!

Build Yourself a Quiet Room in Your Mind

“Each of us needs a quiet room inside his own mind— like the deep of the ocean that is never disturbed, no matter how rough the waves may become upon the surface. This quiet room within, which is built in imagination, works as a mental and emotional decompression chamber. It depressurizes you from tensions, worry, pressures, stresses and strains, refreshes you and enables you to return to your work-a-day world better prepared to cope with it”. ~ Maxwell Maltz

What we need to do is to find a quiet center inside of ourselves and retreat into it periodically for rest, recuperation, and renewed vigor.

The best way for entering this quiet center is to build for yourself, in imagination, a little mental room. Furnish this room with whatever is most restful and refreshing to you. The room is plainly and simply furnished;  Simplicity, quietness, beauty, are the keynotes.

A Little Vacation Every Day

Whenever you have a few spare moments during the day—between appointments, at your kids games, at the the doctor’s office, retire into your quiet room. Whenever you begin to feel tension, or to feel rushed, retire into your quiet room for a few moments.

Just a very few minutes taken from a very busy day will more than pay for themselves. It is not time wasted, but time invested. Say to yourself, “I am going to rest a bit in my quiet room.”

See yourself sitting down in your favorite chair, completely relaxed and at peace with the world. Your room is safe. Nothing can touch you here.. There is nothing to worry about. You left your worries at the foot of the stairs. There are no decisions to be made here—no hurry, no bother.

Can You share what works for you on a daily basis to renew and refresh your body and mind?